The episode was one of Bill Maher’s most controversial.

It was no surprise that controversy developed over Bill Maher’s latest Real Time episode after he announced that one of his panelists would be alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos. It even caused another scheduled guest, Intercept founder Jeremy Scahill, to cancel his appearance altogether, arguing that debating the Breitbart editor would be pointless. Nonetheless, Maher’s show went on Friday night. Yiannopoulos joined a lineup that also included former longtime Republican congressman__Jack Kingston__, intelligence analyst Malcolm Nance, and comedian Larry Wilmore, who ended up giving Yiannopoulos quite a talking-to.

At one point Yiannopoulos made an offhand comment about transgender people being “confused,” which Nance then took issue with. Yiannopoulos fired back, telling Maher, “You need to start inviting higher-IQ guests or this is going to be a disaster.”

That was just about the last straw for Wilmore. “You know what?” he replied, “you can go f--k yourself, alright? If your argument is that these people are stupid, you didn’t hear a word this man [Nance] said earlier this segment. Because he can talk circles around your pathetic, douchey little a-- from England, alright?”

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The former Nightly Show host also defended S.N.L.’s Leslie Jones. Twitter banned Yiannopoulos last year after he encouraged followers to tweet hate speech at the actress, and he had brought Jones up yet again earlier in Maher’s show.

“And one last thing,” Wilmore continued. “Leslie Jones is not ‘barely literate.’ Go f--k yourself again for that one, okay. She is a very thoughtful person, and very friendly.”

It was no surprise that controversy developed over Bill Maher’s latest Real Time episode after he announced that one of his panelists would be alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos. It even caused another scheduled guest, Intercept founder Jeremy Scahill, to cancel his appearance altogether, arguing that debating the Breitbart editor would be pointless. Nonetheless, Maher’s show went on Friday night. Yiannopoulos joined a lineup that also included former longtime Republican congressman__Jack Kingston__, intelligence analyst Malcolm Nance, and comedian Larry Wilmore, who ended up giving Yiannopoulos quite a talking-to.